Animal-poke



(No Model.)

D. 'P. .SANDUS-KY.

ANIMAL POKE.

Patented Oct. 27, 1885..

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. FIDAVID FRANKLIN SANDUSKY, OF MOLEANSBOROUGH, ILLINo s.

ANlMAL-POKE.

sl ncrr'lcn'rrolv, forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,220, dated October 27, 1885.-

Application filed J nne 12, 1885. Serial No. 168,553. (No model.) 7

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID FRANKLIN SAN- DUSKY, of McLeansborough, in the county of Hamilton and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Animal-Poke, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of devices employed to prevent horses, mules, or cattle from jumping fences; and my object is to construct a yoke, or, as it is technically called, a poke, that will act so as to hit the animal on the nose and cause him to start back as he approaches a fence, but which will not interfere with the grazing of the animal wearing it. This object I accomplish by the use of such a poke as is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a View of my poke as applied to a horse, showing in dotted lines the position of the parts when the lower lever is depressed by coming in contact with a fence. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device with a portion of the yoke removed; and Fig. 3 is a plan view,partly in section.

The letter A represents the yoke proper, or that portion of the device which encircles the aninials neclg, the strip from which said yoke is formed being bent to the required shape after being steamed in the ordinary well-known manner. The downwardly-projecting ends a a of the yoke A do not approach each other to such an extent as in the ordinary form of animal-poke, a space being left between the lever-arms of the poke and the ends out of the neckyoke in order that clamping-strips, as b b, may be inserted between said parts, the idea being to prevent too great a narrowing of the yoke at its lower end, and at the same time toadd to the general utility of the apparatus, as will be more fully explained. Between these clamp'ing-strips b b there are two 5 lever-arms, B and O, which are held in position by the pivot-bolts c 0. These pivot-bolts pass through openings formed in the ends a a of the yoke A, and also through openings in the clamping-strips b b, and are secured in place by pins, as 'i t, that pass through the bolts 0 c, and rest in recesses formed in the clampingstrip b, as clearly'shown in Fig. 3. A spring-pin, as k, that passes through the projecting end of the bolt 0, serves to retain and hold the end a of the yoke A in position against the clamping-strip b. By this construction the levers will be held in position when one end of the neck-yoke is released,

and sprung out for applying the same.

The main featureof my invention consists in the peculiar arrangement of the levers B and G. The larger of these levers (shown at B) is pivoted to the yoke below the shorter lever,O,in a position that will permitthelever G to lie closely thereon, as shown'in full lines in Fig. 1. The upper side of the short arm of the lever B is so formed as to constitutea camface, 0, that is eccentric to the pivotal point of the lever, so that as the lever is depressed in the direction of the'arrow y, this eccentric cam-face 0 will be brought to bear against the under side of the lever O,which will be thereby raised in the direction of the arrowz to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The

said end of the lever B is also provided with the curved extension 0, to limit the upward movement of the lever O.

In order to apply my improved animal-poke, the spring-pin k is removed, and the ends of the yoke A sprung apart, so that the yoke can be passed over the animals head, it being of course understood that'the yoke is applied so that the lever G will rest upon the long lever B, as has been hereinbefore described. When an animal thus equipped approaches a fence, the lever B will strike against it andbe depressed, which movement of the lever B will throw up the short lever C, so that said lever will hit the animal on the nose andcause him to back off.

Although my improved poke is very effective in preventing unruly animals from jumping fences, it does not interfere with the grazing of the animal, and I have found it extremely desirable to construct a poke in the manner described, as outside of the general idea of the combination of the two levers B IOC advantage arising from the form of construction shown and described is that as the pins iirest in recesses formed in the clampingstrip 12, they will not chafe or wear away the yoke A, nor are they so liable to be lost.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an animal-poke, the combination, with the neck-yoke A, and the short lever O, pivoted between the ends of the yoke, of the long lever B, pivoted between the ends of the yoke below the pivot of the lever O, and having a cam-face, 0, and the curved extension 0, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby provision is made for raising the lever 0 and limiting its upward movement, as set forth.

2. In an animal-poke, the combinatiomwith o the neck-yoke A and the levers B O, of the clamping-strips b b, secured on opposite sides of the lever between the ends of the neckyoke, substantially as described, whereby provision is made for holding the levers in position when one end of the yoke is released for applying it, as set forth.

3. In an animal-poke, the combination,with the neok-yoke A and the levers B O, of the clamping-strips b b, the strip 12 being provided with recesses in its outer surface, the bolts 0 0, the pins i, passing through the bolts and fitting in the recesses of the plate I), and the pin 7c,passed through one of the bolts outside of the end a of the neck-yoke, substantially as described.

B. F. GULLio, FELIX A. HARVY. 

